mRack: Thunderbolt RAID and LTO-7 Tape Archiving Solution for Digital Workflows
RAID & LTO-7. The Perfect Combo.
mRack DIT LTO-7 is a 1U rack mountable hybrid RAID and LTO-7 tape archiving solution designed to support today’s digital workflows. Copy camera cards to high-speed RAID for online editing and then archive the raw footage and completed projects to LTO-7 tape to safeguard the media for the long term.
mRack DIT LTO-7 features four Thunderbolt 2 ports and connects to any Thunderbolt equipped Mac or PC. Add up to six spinning or solid state drives for integrated hardware RAID functionality. Archive assets to the on-board LTO-7 drive which provides 6TB of data storage per cartridge. LTO has a shelf life of 30+ years and is the most cost-effective storage medium on a cost per TB basis.
Hello LTFS. Drag and Drop Content to LTO-7 Tape.
mRack DIT LTO-7 supports the Linear Tape File System (LTFS). LTFS mounts the LTO-7 tape drive in the same way as a disk drive. This enables drag and drop functionality to the LTO tape cartridge.
Backup. Archive. Manage. Works with your favorite software.
mRack DIT LTO-7 is compatible with industry leading LTO archiving and media management software for macOS and Windows including:
- Axle Video – Axle
- Archiware – P5
- Imagine Products – PreRoll Post
- Pomfort – Silverstack XT
- Retrospect
- Square Box – CatDV
- StorageDNA – DNAevolution
- XenData – XenData 6 Workstation
- YoYotta – YoYottaID LTFS
Simple GUI. High-Speed Hardware RAID.
Add six of your favorite hard drives or SSDs. mRack DIT supports drives up to 9.5mm in height. Setting up a RAID set is easy using the included utility.
The dedicated RAID-on-Chip processor and onboard 512MB of DDR3 cache memory offloads RAID processing from the host system, ensuring stable and high-performance data transfers.
